A avaliação psicológica como ferramenta no hospital geral: suas aplicações e contribuições

Abstract

The following paper discusses the use of psychological assessment in context of the general hospital. It begins with a historical review of psychology and its place primarily in health, presenting difficulties and overshoots of this process, until settling as a branch of study and practice. Concurrent with this process is also exposed to the arrival of psychology at the hospital care and evolutions of their routines and accompaniments. Thus begins the emphasis on psychological assessment, their applications, functions and mainly benefits that this practice offers patients, families and healthcare team as a whole, in a context where emotional changes and suffer appears with such intensity. A literature review of electronic collection of articles and books that also references the theme was used for the construction of this work. Most of the references where found in article form, but the work of Camon and collaborators was essential, because it brings a true manual script and application of psychological assessment. With this literature search was possible to see that it is a tool not yet explored by psychologists, with those still focusing its activities in brief psychotherapy and also that there is no standardization as the development and implementation of the evaluation.